The most enjoyable book ever written about the city

Fascinating... Cities is a celebration of its subject's refusal to be explained or controlled

An entertaining read

Vastly entertaining... Reading Cities is like wandering with an erudite companion through a great city in which the past rubs shoulders with the present and surprises lurk around every corner

A superb historical account of the places in which most of either live or will live

Extraordinary, intensely passionate and quite beautiful

A bustling, revealing and downright moving portrayal of thwarted genius

Neil McKenna's book is the most important one to have been written about Wilde for many years

McKenna’s book offers an entertaining and fascinating (sometimes jaw-dropping) insight into Victorian homosexual practices. He is outstanding

A sensational new biography

A brilliant reconstruction of Oscar Wilde's dynamic sex life, brilliantly written and meticulously researched

Where this biography really excels is in recreating the fevered atmosphere of the late Victorian homosexual underground

A fully convincing biography of this most intensely symbolic of Victorian lives

McKenna makes many interesting connections between Wilde’s life and his literary works